Beethoven Choruses Have Busy Weekend

May 28, 1985|The Morning Call

The Beethoven Choruses capped a busy holiday weekend yesterday with a choral performance at the annual Memorial Day Festival at the Beethoven Waldheim, Leithsville.

The concert, conducted by Donald Winzer, preceded a daylong festival which also featured a display of antique and classic automobiles, a picnic lunch served by the Women of Waldheim, and arts and crafts exhibits.

Later in the day, Joe Reichel's Band provided ballroom dance music for the more than 150 people in attendance.

Over the weekend, the Beethoven singers participated in the 42nd annual National Saengerfest at Philadelphia's Franklin Plaza Hotel. Winzer, festival director, conducted a chorus of nearly 800 voices from throughout the Northeast in singing the works of Bach, Brahms, Handel, Beethoven and Wagner.

The Beethoven Choruses will appear at the Liederplatz at 8 p.m. Aug. 21 during Musikfest '85 in Bethlehem.